@wombat15 this is what is happening when women speak the truth. It’s not a conspiracy theory. So it’s no surprise other politicians are afraid to speak out.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyxx243yr16o.amp
Labour candidate Rosie Duffield has announced she has withdrawn from hustings events as she does not feel safe.
Ms Duffield, who hopes to be re-elected in the Canterbury constituency, has previously faced death threats and multiple instances of abuse over her stance on sex and gender
An internet troll who posted "chilling" online messages threatening to kill Ms Duffield, as well as Harry Potter author JK Rowling, was sentenced in June.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/jk-rowling-from-beloved-childrens-author-to-being-outspoken-on-trans-issues-1608703.html
Rowling has said her views have attracted “so many death threats I could paper the house with them”.
In 2021 her address was posted online by campaigners who posed outside her home with “Trans liberation now” signs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/27/gender-critical-feminist-harassment-arts-council-trans-row/
Gender-critical woman wins Arts Council England harassment claim after trans row - Employment tribunal rules Denise Fahmy faced hostile environment because of her view that people cannot change their biological sex.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-right-to-be-gender-critical/
An Employment Tribunal yesterday held that a social worker was harassed on the basis of her protected gender critical beliefs when Social Work England and Westminster City Council subjected her to a protracted disciplinary process.
Rachel was suspended on gross misconduct charges. Two of her colleagues were also suspended for failing to report her “discriminatory posts”
The Facebook posts that were of particular concern to Social Work England included a link to a petition to the International Olympic Committee that male athletes should not compete in female sports and a link to a petition that women have the right to maintain their sex-based protections in the Equality act, including female only spaces.
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/open-university-gender-critical-belief-tribunal-case/
Phoenix believes that biological sex is immutable, real and important, and that sex cannot be conflated with gender identity. She had been due to speak at a conference in 2019, but it was cancelled. In December 2019, the claimant was due to give a talk on the topic of trans rights, imprisonment and the criminal justice system at the University of Essex, but the talk was cancelled because students threatened to barricade the room in protest.
In June 2021, the claimant launched the Gender Critical Research Network, a research group focused on the importance of sexed bodies in different academic disciplines.
An open letter protesting against the launch of the GCRN was signed by 368 OU staff and postgraduate researchers. It called on the OU vice chancellor to withdraw support for the GCRN, affirm its position as a trans-inclusive employer and commit to supporting staff and students in a “trans-hostile external and internal environment”.
It said that “gender-critical feminism is a strand of thought and a belief that is fundamentally hostile to the rights of trans, non-binary, and genderqueer people”, and was critical of the GCRN’s link to the Savage Minds podcast episode the claimant appeared on.
Although the letter was addressed to the vice-chancellor, it was saved as a publicly accessible Google Doc. Some of the signatories included the claimant’s colleagues, who also tweeted and retweeted the letter to encourage more academics to sign it. Phoenix told the tribunal that it was “deeply humiliating, both personally and professionally, to be condemned by colleagues in this public way”.
https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/14/sacked-silenced-academics-say-they-are-blocked-from-exploring-trans-issues
It is now so risky and frightening for people to talk critically about gender identity on campus,” she says.
An event was cancelled at Edinburgh in December because of fears the speakers would face abuse
Murray says one event that went ahead last year on sex-based rights required extensive security because of anticipated opposition. “There was a one-hour security briefing for speakers, seven security guards attending the event, a security sweep of the lecture theatre beforehand, and ID checks for all attendees,” she says.